Lost and Found Traditions Native American - Softcover

Ralph-coe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888946252 ISBN 13: 9780888946256

Publisher: Douglas Mcintyre/see Pgw, 1900

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Contemporary American Indian arts and crafts are sometimes dismissed as a pale reflection of a once-great art form. Coe, who spent eight years crisscrossing North America, meeting Indian artists and collecting their works, disproves this viewpoint. A rich legacy of tribal tradition lives on in modern textiles, masks, carvings, jewelry and sacred objects, as revealed in the 400 artworks reproduced in this catalogue of a touring exhibition. When a Makah Indian in Washington State carves a painted box in the shape of a wolf's head, he rediscovers an age-old form and, in so doing, experiences a sense of pride and shared values. Visiting scores of tribes, Coe discovered an art community, a loose network of weavers, craft classes, singers, carvers. Examples in this revelatory volume range from a Pueblo dance-skirt decorated with mystical life symbols to a Cheyenne bird-feather fan whose iridescent colors mirror the peyote ceremony.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Douglas Mcintyre/see Pgw
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0888946252
• ISBN 13: 9780888946256
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English